Born and raised in Dublin, O’Shaughnessy joined the Billie Barry Stage School at the age of 4.

He also starred in Ireland’s prime-time soap Fair City between 2001 and 2010.

Speaking about taking part in the annual competition, he said: ‘I plan on doing Ireland proud by bringing a song and performance to Eurovision that we haven’t seen since the days of Rock and Roll Kids.’

UK contestant SuRie – real name Susanna Marie – will hope to get the better of O’Shaughnessy this weekend.

Her track Storm is a Jess Glynne-esque pop number stuffed with soaring strings and soulful backing vocals.

She will hope to better Lucie Jones 15th place effort from last year, but admits it will be tough to win.

‘If I can get anything above zero points, I’ll take that as a victory,’ she told NME.

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